Since I had a similar attitude at one point, I'll answer too. Basically it came from ignorance. I hadn't watched the OUT in years and hadn't paid much attention to the fine details when I did. I figured the SE's were good enough. Better in some cases.msycamore said:
Can you tell me where the hell such dismissiveness for film preservation came from in the first place?! A view like that is so out there and so completely foreign to me that I feel that I need to ask.
But I picked up the GOUT DVD's (a few days early too, wahooooo!!) and had my mind blown by how much wasn't changed for the '97 SE's. Sure, there were a lot of new CGI shots but there are still a lot of phenomenal wire/model shots. A lot of complex visual effects shots already existed and looked amazing too. For every shot that doesn't hold up after all these years, you can find at least two or three that still look flawless. Those movies ought to be preserved because of the cultural, social, commercial, corporate, cinematic and technological breakthroughs they heralded.